Imagine a pair of twins – so similar in appearance yet so different in character. That’s Australia and the UK in a nutshell for you. We are close to one another by mind and spirit. We laugh at the same jokes and tell the same tales. It almost seems like there are no...

From the picture many of us get via pop culture, jokes and groundless stereotypes, one might say that Australia and the UK are polar opposites. One is an entitled, self-indulgent aristocrat who values tradition over common sense and the other is, well, a party dude...